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    Comment #49223401

    there was pretty large intelligence side that did attribution and investigative type work into orgs money movements etc. some of those people def came from non tech backgrounds.

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    Comment #49223295

    If one wants a conspiracy theory in USSR a First Deputy Chairman of the KGB offed himself when an investigation he was coordinating led to the daughter of General Secretary of the …

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    Comment #49223192

    Only one job ? Worked with a ton of ex NSA and CIA people in a large cybersec company.

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    Comment #49191143

    is this sarcasm ?

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    Comment #49162101

    AWS made 46B profit last year and will make prob close to 70B this yea so even 400B is very far from "world ending"

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    Comment #48979441

    well they traded short term gain for long term pain.

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    Comment #48849385

    I use both especially for checking each others work. Pretty happy with results

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    Comment #48680284

    API pricing is def not below cost

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    Comment #48674229

    If people are sure they can always short NVIDIA

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    Comment #48674178

    Most of Anthropic revenue looks to be companies paying for Claude Code at API prices ...

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    Comment #48674149

    hence the bit about us learning the actual state of things once they are a public company.

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    Comment #48673761

    A lot of factors there we will see how it plays out.

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    Comment #48673505

    We will see once they go public Dario did claim profit margin on inference is 40% if memory serves me right

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    Comment #48673248

    Yes 65B ARR that Anthropic has is clear indication there is no path to revenue.

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    Comment #48673179

    If people were not consuming their services they would not be buying inference hardware at this rate so it's pretty much on consumers.

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    Comment #48641104

    Fable was able to oneshot pretty big features. In write spec -> refine spec -> create todos -> implement todos workflow difference was far less pronounced vs codex or opus.

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    Comment #48504286

    Well given dual class shares in SpaceX Elon will get full control of Tesla for free aside from all other benefits ...

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    Comment #48481763

    it is crazy

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    Comment #48480514

    why did we switch to per minute? A modern quality enterprise SSD can do 35K +/- legit fsyncs per second.

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    Comment #48467319

    You don't need LLM for that. You make _all_ projects low-stakes by working on green field project using (insert buzzword soup of the day) and leaving for a new green field opportun…

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    Comment #48451359

    Basically xAI is pulling a Palantir. They try to reposition datacenter capacity lease revenue to have a multiplier of fast growing frontier lab.

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    Comment #48451323

    Where did you get 2-3B from? Colosus 2 GPU's alone were 18B Total cost including construction, power and water treatment facility might be close to 25-30B.

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    Comment #48449667

    Anthropic has made $330 billion in compute and chip commitments between Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, another $30 billion with CoreWeave and another $15 billion with SpaceX. To pa…

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    Comment #48427514

    None is using grok so they are renting out unused capacity

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    Comment #48427505

    They know allocation they have from TSMC for TPUs production they know allocation they have from Nvidia they see demand curve.